Advises of adjustment to the level of subsidy payable to tenants occupying Government Regional Officers Housing (GROH) for gas used in the operation of gas hot water systems. New rate of subsidy is up to a maximum of $29.00 per month as from 1 July 2008.

The GST Project Control Group has produced an information pack to provide guidance to Health Contract Managers and procurement staff in the lead up to the commencement of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) on 1July 2000.

Please find attached a copy of the Western Australian Industrial Relations Commission (WAIRC) Order P34 of 2000 varying the following Schedules of the Government Officers Salaries and Allowances Conditions Award. Schedule IOvertime(Part 1 – Out of Hours Contact)Schedule KShiftwork AllowanceSchedule LOther Allowances

Please find attached for your attention a copy of the Western Australian Industrial Relations Commission Order, varying the District Allowance prescribed under Schedule G- Clause 31 of the Government Officers Salaries Allowances and Conditions Award 1989, in accordance with movements in the Perth Consumer Price Index.

On 23 August 2004 the Western Australian Industrial Relations Commission (WAIRC) registered the Government Officers Salaries, Allowances and Conditions General Agreement 2004. This General Agreement replaces the Government Officers Salaries, Allowances and Conditions General Agreement 2002.

Attached please find a copy of the Western Australian Industrial Relations Commission General Order No. 609 of 1999, increasing wage rates in the following Schedules of the Government Officers Salaries, Allowances and Conditions Award:* Schedule D - Salaries* Schedule E - Salaries - Specified Callings

Attached please find a copy of the Western Australian Industrial Relations Commission General Order, giving effect to the 2000 State Wage Case. A copy of the wage schedule is attached. This order increases the wage rates in the following schedules of the Government Officers Salaries, Allowances and Conditions Award: Schedule D - Salaries; Schedule E - Salaries - Specified Callings

The wage rates within the Government Officers Salaries, Allowances and Conditions Award 1989 have been varied by General Order of the Industrial Relations Commission (WAIRC) in accordance with the 2001 State Wage Case.

Attached please find a copy of the Western Australian Industrial Relations Commission Order P8 of 1999, varying the following Schedules of the Government Officers Salaries, Allowances and Conditions Award:* Schedule F - Camping Allowance* Schedule J - Travelling, Transfer and Relieving Allowance

Attached please find a copy of the Western Australian Industrial Relations Commission Order P19 of 2000, varying the following Schedules of the Government Officers Salaries, Allowances and Conditions Award:* Schedule F Camping Allowance* Schedule J Travelling, Transfer and Relieving Allowance

Attached please find a copy of the Western Australian Industrial Relations Commission Order P12 of 1999, varying the following Schedules of the Government Officers Salaries, Allowances and Conditions Award:* Schedule I - Overtime (Part 1 Out of Hours Contact)* Schedule K - Shiftwork Allowance* Schedule L - Other Allowances

Major amendment to version MP 0005/16 v.2.0, treatment of approval for grant initiation and variations have been amended to align more closely with contract variations, and streamline administrative requirements, revised version MP 0005/16 v.3.0

This Policy supports Health Service Providers to manage any reputational risks to WA Health when issuing grants by outlining the key principles, and minimum process and documentation requirements for funding by WA Health to non-government organisations.

This Operational Circular advises of the change of name of the Hospital Salaried Officers Association of Western Australia (Union of Workers) (the HSOA) to the Health Services Union of Western Australia (Union of Workers) (the HSU), in respect to the Graylands Selby Lemnos and Special Care Health Services Award.

The Department of Health and the Health Services have a Statutory risk management responsibility in which they are accountable to protect the government and the general community from unnecessary costs and losses, including the human cost of adverse incidents.

The purpose of this document is to advise public health staff on the course of action to be taken in the event of an arrival of an international airline passenger into Western Australia with a highly transmissible infectious disease.

All indicators within each statewide performance report will need to be based on approved reporting definitions. Each indicator must be underpinned by a detailed reporting definition explaining its use, data source, limitations and method of calculation. Reporting definitions are essential in ensuring common understanding and agreement of how indicators are calculated. Detailed reporting definitions also ensure indicators produced are transparent and repeatable.
These Guidelines for Creating and Changing Statewide Reporting Definitions apply to the development and modification of reporting definitions for all statewide performance reports. The guidelines illustrate the process for creating and modifying reporting definitions as well as detailing the approval process required.

These guidelines provide the Department of Health school nurse vaccination teams with the recommended. Standards to be considered/adopted when implementing and managing delivery of school-based vaccination Programs.

The purpose of this OD is to advise registered nurses and program managers who have responsibilities for the delivery of immunisation programs in community health immunisation clinics or school-based immunisation programs of the specific WA legislation and DOH policies that must be followed when planning and delivering school-based and community health immunisation programs

A document titled Guidelines for Developing Protocols on Intervention and the Management of Family and Domestic Violence for Hospitals in Western Australia has been distributed to all Western Australian Public Hospitals.

The purpose of this document is to advise health care workers of the recommended action to be undertaken for the exclusion of persons with notifiable and non-notifiable enteric infections and their contacts from work, school and child care settings.

The following guidelines with respect to patient consent to treatment and disclosure of material risk have been prepared for all public hospitals and health services in Western Australia.These guidelines reflect good practice for all health practitioners and are intended to clarify the legal obligations of individual members of staff and the rights of patients in obtaining properly informed consent to treatment. Where there is uncertainty about a patient’s capacity to consent to treatment, the treating health practitioner should seek advice from the hospital or health service executive.

The Guidelines for human biobanks, genetic research databases and associated data provide a state based framework of principles and best practices for the establishment and management of human tissue collections and their associated data.

The Guidelines for Managing Statewide Reporting Definitions (Guidelines) apply to the management of reporting definitions for all statewide performance reports and illustrates the process for managing reporting definitions as well as detailing the approval process required.

The Australasian Society of Blood Transfusion Inc. has issued guidelines for use by laboratories carrying out pretransfusion testing of blood. The intention of this circular is to promote both the useof the minimum blood order schedule, which is appended, and the "group and hold" protocol. The laboratories are concerned about the large volumes of blood which are cross-matched for patients undergoing routine surgery, who do not require transfusion. This means that large blood stocks must be held by the blood banks and that blood which is cross-matched is unavailable for use in an emergency.

The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare recently released best practice clinical guidelines for falls prevention in for older people in hospital, residential care, and community care settings. This new suite of guidelines replace the 2005 edition. The guidelines and associated guidebooks provide an evidence-based resource for clinical practice. The Falls Prevention Health Network was involved in the consultation phase of the guidelines and endorses their use as the principal resource for falls prevention in Western Australia.

The WA Department of Health’s Director for Child Safety recognises, via the Protection of Children Policy (2008) that health care providers have a key role in the protection of children. The Guidelines for Protecting Children 2009 replaces the Guidelines for Responding to Child Abuse, Neglect and the Impact of Family and Domestic Violence (2004). It is the primary initial resource to assist all DOH health care providers protect children.

The Guidelines for Protecting Children 2009 have been reviewed in consultation with key stakeholders and have been replaced with the Guidelines for Protecting Children 2015.

The new Guidelines, which include the WA Health Protection of Children Policy, are the primary initial resource to support all WA Health employees to comply with their legal and professional responsibilities in protection of children matters. The Guidelines provide a range of information and resources to support health workers to identify and respond to child protection concerns, make notifications and referrals to other agencies and manage ongoing involvement with the child/family.

All WA Health staff are required to comply with the Guidelines. It is the responsibility of managers to ensure that all staff have access to a copy of the policy.

Queries regarding this policy should be directed to the Statewide Protection of Children Coordination unit at spoccunit@health.wa.gov.au.

The Guidelines are available on the mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse webpage at www.health.wa.gov.au/mandatoryreport. Limited print copies will be distributed to major health centres and will be available on request to health staff/locations who do not have consistent access to the internet.

The Guidelines for Responding to Family and Domestic Violence are for distribution to all area health services. The guidelines are a tool to be used by clinical staff for identifying and dealing with patients/clients, and their children, who disclose or are identified as being victim of family and domestic violence.

This guidelines have been developed as a management tool aimed to promote early recognition of and prompt effective response to gastroenteritis outbreaks. They are intended as a guide for all staff members working within residential care facilities.

The purpose of this Operational Circular is to provide guidelines, based on a risk assessment approach, that outline infection control measures for the management of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Residential Care Facilities (RCFs), including nursing homes, hostels, group homes, psychiatric facilities, hospices and rehabilitation facilities.

Sets out the necessary steps to be taken to reduce the transmission of VRE infection within outpatient haemodialysis units. Complements often existing OC's. This is an important infection control guide.

This Operational Circular is to provide information in the absence of adequate infection control measures. The introduction of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci (VRE) strains into an acute care facility can result in spread to other patients and sometimes cause infection. Evidence to date suggests there is much less chance for VRE strains to spread in long term care facilities and there should be less concern about the transfer of patients carrying VRE from acute care facilities to long term care facilities for convalescent rehabilitation or long term care.

Enterococci are important hospital pathogens that are naturally resistant to most antibiotics except penicillins, aminoglycosides and glycopeptides (eg. vancomycin). Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) refers to vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis. VRE were first detected in Australia in 1994 and in Perth in 1996.

This Operational Circular is to provide guidelines based on a risk assessment approac that outline infection control measures for the management of residents colonised/infected with Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci (VRE) in residential care facilities, including nursing homes, hostels, psychiatric facilities, hospices and rehabilitation facilities.

The purpose of this operational directive is to provide information about how to order government funded hepatitis A and B vaccine for adults in Western Australia at risk of acquiring these infections by sexual transmission and injecting drug use.

These guidelines have been designed to increase the accessibility of hepatitis A and B vaccines for adults at risk of acquiring these infections by sexual transmission and/or injecting drug use.SUPERCEDED BY OD 0146/08

The Guidelines for the Release of Data has been developed to ensure data is released adequately and meets the needs of the requestor. This is achieved through the proper documentation of the the requestor's requirements and the completion of a Data Release Pro-Forma highlighting specific details of the data provided.

The Guidelines for the Release of Data has been developed to ensure data is released adequately and meets the needs of the requester. This is achieved through the proper documentation of the requester’s requirements and the completion of a Data Release Pro-Forma highlighting specific details of the data provided.

The facsimile (fax) machine is a fast, convenient and popular method of transmitting information. While the benefits of faxing are well recognised, the potential for compromise to the integrity and confidentiality of information is also evident. These Guidelines are intended as a guide to public health care facilities using the fax machine to transfer health information. The Guidelines highlight the circumstances under which faxing may be deemed appropriate and outline measures that promote the security and integrity of the information being transferred.

The Guidelines for the Transmission of Personal Health Information by Facsimile Machine (Guidelines) are intended as a guide to WA Health staff using the fax machine to transfer personal health information. The Guidelines highlights the circumstances under which faxing may be deemed appropriate and outline measures that promote the security and integrity of the information being transferred.

The Department of Health provides a voluntary health screening service for refugees and migrants arriving in Australia under some humanitarian resettlement schemes. This service includes screening for infectious diseases of public health significance.

Guidelines on the prophylactic use of Rh D immunoglobulin (anti-D) in obstetrics produced by the NHMRC in September 1996 have been superseded by the Guidelines approved by the NHMRC in April 1999. The following information has been taken from a synopsis of the publication produced 19 April 1999.

The Western Australian Drugs and Therapeutics Committee recommends that:-THERAPEUTIC GUIDELINES: PSYCHOTROPIC VERSION 4 BE ADOPTED AS A REFERENCE STANDARD FOR PSYCHOTROPIC DRUG PRESCRIBING IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

Recommendation from The Western Australian Therapeutic Advisory Group that the contemporaneous version of Therapeutic Guidelines: Psychotropic (currently Version 5) should be a reference standard for psychotropic drug prescribing in Western Australia.

The Department of Health Health Networks Branch working group developed the Burn Injury Model of Care, and in doing this they identified the need to provide information and support on burn injury management at a statewide policy level.

The Department of Health Health Networks Branch working group developed the Burn Injury Model of Care, and in doing this they identified the need to provide information and support on burn injury management at a statewide policy level.

This Operational Circular outlines the responsibilities and obligations of employers in respect to: a) the preparation and assessment of Unmet Area of Need (UAN) of submissions; and b) the recruitment and selection of oversease trained medical practitioners.